Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-03-30
SHERMAN AND BLAINE.
Their Movements and Utterances as Viewed
by the Metropolitan Editors.

by the Metropolitan Editors.
NEW YORK, March 29.-The Herald
says: Senator Sherman's speech IN Gin
cinnati was forcible exposition of public
policy from Republican standpoint. He
seems TO have gone into the campaign for
the next Presidency with the energy Of a
cyclone which tears up everything by the
roots as il goes along. 0fcourse We do not
agree with all the statements OF the Sena-
| tor.
'sThe main point, however, is that Mr.
Sherman is the first man in the field. He
has taken time by the forelock. and sue
ceeds so well in Nashville and Cincinnati
that Mr.. Blaine must needs gnash his
teeth. The solemn truth has dawned on
the Augusta statesman that he has not
moment to lose, that he is q little late
already, and that he must be up and doing
OF all will be lost. So he starts in haste
for the Far West To get glimpse OF the
vast population over which President
presides and 10 negotiate Tor the possiblli'
tics Of the future
The Times says: ''It would be interest
ing to know on what issue the Republi-
cans expect to enter the next national
campaign. None at the present moment
seen,s to be very clear in the minds of the
leaders who are speaking from time to
time, or in those of the party newspaper
editors who do not enjoy the precious priv
ilege of saying nothing when there Is moth
ing to say. Ot the men who may, or think
that they may, be chosen to lead the Re
publican host, Mr.. Sherman has Just come
back from the South and Mr. Blame has
started for the West. The former has
spoken; the latter has been spoken about
What is said by one and what is said OF
the other seems to throw some light on
what the issue is not to he, but
very little on what it is to be. 1t is plain,
for instance, that there is going TO be good
deal of trouble in making the issue the
'vindication of MIR. Blaine On that point
the distinguished eX-candidate need not 90
West to find out what some of his former
advocates and present admirers think. The
press of Iowa and Wisconsin-two States
that have been included in the published
itinerary of Mr.. Blaine-has recently con-
tained number of statements 10 the effect
that he is an impossible candidate" for
lSSS These statements do not settle the
question, but they are significant. He
who runs may read the sign they afford,
and they will lot he lost upon Mr. Blaine
''Mr. Sherman, in the various remarks
he has made since his return to Ohio, has
made another thing clear-even clearer
than Mr.. Blaiue's prOspects-and that is
that there will be no campaign made on the
Southern question next year. The stakes
that Mr.. Blaine drove in his notorious
Portland speech ON the morrow OF the cleo
ton are rudely and even contemptuOusly
pulled up by Mr.. Sherman and thrown
into the ditch. The negroes in the South
are not being oppressed or worked at star
vation wages as Mr. Blaine said they were
or would be. The wOrEingmen of the
North are in 10 danger of competition
from labor cheaper and more helpless than
slave labor, as Mr.. Blaine said they would
he
'Mr Sherman reports that there is good
feeling between the races; that the negroes
are not only safe, but industrious, busy
and prosperous The stories of Southern
progress, lie says, are not exaggerated.
That region is developing rapidly under
the influence OF peace, industry and enter
prise it has becOme-mark this word
'patrioticr 1t will no longer do to hold
il up as a bugaboO to frighten either polit-
ical babes or dOtards in the North Its in
terests are ours. Its methods, principles,
purposes, are ours. It's representatives.
are in every market of the North, and ours
arSHll over the South. The common bond
OF constant intercourse on the basis Of
mutual confidence and respect, is becom-
ing every day stronger. Obviously there
can be no use for the bloody shirt in the
next canvass" ="